Dave Strobhar and Kim Elkins attempted to create a database that facilitated chunking of procedures without the use of the tool developed in 2014. Emergency procedures from NOVA were used as a test case. The chunking was complete in less than a week, but a high degree of variance in the existing procedures, both in order of steps and wording, made recreation of the initial procedures impossible.
The objective of this project is to determine if the use of modularized emergency procedures makes it easier to review/revise procedure content for accuracy and applicability.
What are the potential benefits in modularizing emergency procedures?
Accurate procedures are essential to safe, successful completion of complex tasks. As procedures have increased in number and length, ensuring the accuracy of the procedures has become more difficult. Research on the Semantic Procedure Analyzer by the COP indicated that much of the content of emergency procedures was not unique; the same content was repeated in numerous procedures. Modularizing this repeated content would make it easier to review and update, as it would only need to be done in the module with the results propagating to all the places the module was used.
A populated access database containing the emergency procedure content and capable of recreating those procedures will be created.